Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsHarvard University Press, 1994 - 196 Seiten Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children simply will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent sharply demonstrates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success. |
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... women from one - parent families are more motivated to find a husband than young women from two- parent families . A potential problem with our results is that they fail to identify young women who are cohabiting , a status that has ...
... women from higher socioeconomic back- grounds - women who are not likely to be motivated by the prom- ise of a welfare benefit . Although women with a college education are less likely to divorce and less likely to become unwed mothers than ...
... women's . After World War II and up through the early 1970s , both men and women benefited from a strong economy and from the economic prosperity that swept the country . Thus , while women were be- coming more self - sufficient during ...
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Why We Care about Single Parenthood | 1 |
How Father Absence Lowers Childrens | 19 |
Which Outcomes Are Most Affected | 39 |
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Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps Sara McLanahan,Gary D. Sandefur Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |